April 14

Chapter 60

The Rule of Benedict April 14

The BSBSB began as a lay order in large part because of this chapter.  Benedictine authority is very clearly not clerical, and this needed to be established in our order's first iteration or it would be very difficult to establish later.

Let us note, however, that it's not only priests who carry with them modes of relating that work against Benedict's intentions for community life.  This year has been, for many of us, a process of unlearning and detaching from what we've known in the past so that we can be formed into what the Spirit intends.  I feel encouraged and grateful with regard to where we are as we approach our first anniversary.